Friday, December 14, 2012

Bed of roses

Driving home on one of Welllington's rare stunning days this week, I decided to stop by the rose garden. I timed it perfectly - in the middle was a trailer heaped high with rose petals and spent roses. The prettiest pile of rubbish in the world. Round it stood half a dozen people helping themselves to all the roses that weren't too far gone, while the nice park woman urged them to take as many as they wanted. So of course I joined them. The best ones to take were the red and white floribunda clusters. I put them down on the cafe table to admire while I had my cold juice.

Then I took them home, put them in a vase by Harvey's photo, and felt happy all evening.

3 comments:

Kia ora Anne, I love and reread Harvey's book This Piece of Earth over and over and wish it was available as a ereader on Amazon. Is your new book going to be on Amazon? I use an iPad you see and am an avid reader of ebooks but still reread old favourite books I can't get through Amazon. Very enjoyable blog, thanks, Renée

Lovely to hear from you both. Juliet, thanks so much for your support over the last two years, and I hope you have a peaceful and happy Christmas. Renee - yes, the book certainly will be available for iPad, and for all the other kinds of e-reader too. And good news - Awa Press is going to bring out Harvey's book later next year as an e-book, I don't have a date yet but I'll let you know when it's available. It will be wonderful to ahve it available again as I get lots of enquiries for it. Sorry about the delay in posting your comments, I am having problems with Xtra. Iv'e replied to your comment on previous post too.

The Colour of Food: a memoir of life, love & dinner

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Also in ebook

This Piece of Earth: a year in my New Zealand garden

Harvey's memoir, now available as an Awa Press e-book - click on the cover to see how to buy it.

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At my book launch - Lois Daish, me, Mary Varnham of Awa Press. Click on the photo to go to the book's Facebook page.

Harvey's last anthology, These I Have Loved: My favourite New Zealand poems, published by Steele Roberts, was launched on 10/10/2010. To see what Beattie's Book Blog has to say about it, click on the cover.

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